Edward Zwick (1970), film and television director and producer Journalism and letters Elizabeth Brackett (1959), television news correspondent Shams Charania (2012), NBA reporter, previously for Yahoo Sports The Vertical, currently for The Athletic and Stadium Ann Compton (1965), television news reporter and correspondent Chet Coppock (1966), radio sportscaster Brian D'Amato (1976), novelist and sculptor Alan Goldsher (1984), novelist and ghostwriter Walter Jacobson (1955), local television news personality Geoffrey A. Landis (1973), engineer and Hugo and Nebula Award-winning science fiction author Edward Lifson (1974) award-winning journalist, for National Public Radio and other outlets, and architecture writer Archibald MacLeish (did not graduate), writer and three-time Pulitzer Prize winner Nell Minow (1970), film critic and author in the field of corporate governance Stephen Moore (1978), economics writer, journalist and commentator Henry H. Neff (1991), author and illustrator Juliet Law Packer (1970), television writer Chris Plante, television reporter, host of eponymous radio show Dan Ponce (1995) WGN-TV/News/Anchor; Founder, "Straight No Chaser" a cappella music group. Ian Punnett (1978), radio personality and writer Sarah Ruhl (1992), playwright Thomas A. Stewart (1966), business journalist and editor John Stossel (1965), author, commentator and investigative journalist Penelope Trunk (1985), author, blogger, and entrepreneur Scott Turow (1966), lawyer and novelist Donovan Webster (1977), journalist, author, editor, and filmmaker Law Richard Clifton (1968), Senior United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Martha Minow (1972), former Dean of Harvard Law School Dean A. Pinkert (1974), trade lawyer; former member of the United States International Trade Commission Music David Charles Abell (1976), conductor Mike Bloomfield (did not graduate), rock and blues guitarist Andy Brick (1983), composer and conductor Ann Hampton Callaway (1976), singer and songwriter Marshall Chess, music executive and producer Kristine Flaherty (2003), rapper Katie Gavin (2011), lead singer of the band, MUNA Jeff Harnar (1977), cabaret singer Erwin Helfer (1954), boogie woogie and jazz innovator, performer, and educator Al Jourgensen (attended), musician Kate Liu (2012), pianist, 3rd prize winner of XVII International Chopin Piano Competition Louis The Child, musical duo composed of Robert Hauldren (2015) and Frederic Kennett (2016) Gary Novak, session drummer Sean O’Keefe (1998), record producer, mixer and engineer Liz Phair (1985), singer-songwriter Matthew Polenzani (1986), lyric tenor opera singer Dave Samuels (1966), jazz vibraphonist who played with Spyro Gyra and the Caribbean Jazz Project John Baker Saunders (1973), founding member and bassist for the grunge rock supergroup Mad Season